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I moved from a (nominally "first-world") country off this list to a country on the list (first class first-world) near the turn of the century; although I won't rule out moving back, it would have to be an extremely sweet deal to be enticing: I consider myself, not an expat, but an immigrant.

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Let me ask, do you have a job with the countries median or average salary? Or you have a western job salary, and therefore you can live it up? Did you bring all your gadgets, pc, laptop, phone etc or did you buy those in the country or ?

What I mean is of course you will have it better in a third world cheap country if you come in with a western salary or even western tools already bought in from elsewhere.

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Perhaps I wasn't clear: I immigrated to one of {AT, CA, CH, DE, DK, FI, IS, NL, NO, SE}, none of which are third world cheap countries. (and average salaries are also high in my home country, it's just that those [mean] high salaries, for whatever reasons, do not translate to [modal] high quality of life)